Introduction - Exercise 2: Focus with set Aperture

Introduction - Exercise 2: Focus with set Aperture

Here I took 3 shots of a fence and using the same aperture of f2.8 focused on 3 different fence slats from the front to the back.

 Image 1

 Image 2

Image 3

Image 1 was taken focusing on the 3rd slat, image 2 was focused on the 6th and image 3 was focused on the 3rd from the end.

It is very evident that your attention is always drawn to the point of focus with you eye drifting out towards the blurred area. Although I find that in image 3 where the focal point is at the end of the fence the eye tries to wander away out of the image unlike in image 1 where from the point of focus (the front) the eye moves out through the image. Image 2 seems to fixate me, where my eye doesn't want to leave the point of focus almost tunnel vision like.

If I was to make a preference I think it would have to be image 1 where I am wanting to explore the rest of the image. Image 3 being my least desirable with my eye wandering away from the image and ignoring the rest of it.